Anna Smol: A Single Leaf

Category: Announcement

Free online seminar: Arda’s Entangled Bodies and Environments

You can sign up for a free online seminar featuring analyses of bodies and environments across Tolkien’s works. October 18 via Zoom. Details in the link.

October 2, 2025
Grendel’s Mother Talks Back

“Grendel’s Mother Talks Back: Contemporary Women’s Mythopoeic Revisions” is a talk I gave for the Midsummer Online Seminar of the Mythopoeic Society in August. A link to the recorded talk is included.

September 5, 2025
Two conferences this week!

Two conferences dealing with Tolkien and with women and gender in mythopoeic works to take place this week — The NY Tolkien Conference, and the Online Midsummer Seminar of the Mythopoeic Society. Follow the link for more info.

July 28, 2025
Tolkien at IMC Leeds 2025

Tolkien studies sessions at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, 2025.

June 28, 2025
Studies in Tolkien: New Book Series

Doing research on Tolkien? A new book series, Studies in Tolkien, to be published by McFarland is now accepting proposals for scholarly monographs or shorter Critical Companions. Follow the link for proposal guidelines.

June 18, 2025
Shortlisted for a Tolkien Society Best Article Award!

I’m thrilled to find that my article “Tolkien, The Battle of Maldon, and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: Poetic Allusions and the Experience of Time” has been shortlisted for a Tolkien Society Award! Voting for TS members open until Friday 25 April.

April 23, 2025
Westmoot 2025

The Westmoot 2025 conference will be held in Kansas City from May 9-11, the first time the Tolkien Society will sponsor an event in North America.

January 3, 2025
Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference

Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference program and links for registration. Free, online, Nov 23-24, 2024.

November 11, 2024
cfp: Tolkien and War

CFP: Tolkien and War. 21st Annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont hybrid conference. April 5, 2025; proposals due Feb. 2.

November 2, 2024
Two new articles on Tolkien’s ‘The Homecoming’

Links to two articles available for free download on J.R.R. Tolkien’s play, “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth” and a video recording of a conference presentation on Tolkien as a playwright. These essays discuss manuscript revisions, ideas about drama, and allusions to medieval poetry.

October 28, 2024